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Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival A History of Dissent c 1935 1972 African Studies
by [Peterson, Derek R.]
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Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival shows how, in the era of African political independence, cosmopolitan Christian converts struggled with east Africa's patriots over the definition of culture and community. The book traces the history of the East African Revival, an evangelical movement that spread through much of eastern and central Africa. Its converts offered a subversive reading of culture, disavowing their compatriots and disregarding their obligations to kin. They earned the ire of east Africa's patriots, who worked to root people in place as inheritors of ancestral wisdom. This book casts religious conversion in a new light: not as an inward reorientation of belief, but as a political action that opened up novel paths of self-narration and unsettled the inventions of tradition.
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- Cambridge University Pres Brand
- Mar 20, 2014 Pub Date:
- 9781107636965 ISBN-13:
- 1107636965 ISBN-10:
- 370.0 pages Paperback
- English Language
- 9 in * 0.93 in * 6 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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